Florida Department of Health to Establish MMJ Regulations Without Lawmakers

Since lawmakers in
Tallahassee, Florida, failed to agree on the rules for regulating the
state’s medical marijuana industry, Florida's Department of Health
has announced its intent to start the process without them.

The state's health
department is now going to establish MMJ regulations without
involving lawmakers. Therefore, Florida's medical marijuana industry
could either get bigger or stay the same size with no input from
stakeholders.

Only seven licensed MMJ
companies currently operate in the entire Sunshine State. However, a
judge has recently recommended increasing the number of licensees to
nine.

Numerous big weed
companies and in-state firms believe that the DOH will issue more
cannabis business permits, but the chances of that seem quite slim.

Still,
there is a possibility that the Florida legislature will initiate a
special session to discuss the way the medical cannabis industry will
operate.

In legal cannabis states, you can purchase and possess certain amounts of weed measured by weight. Ohio lawmakers, however, want to limit the amount of cannabis a person can legally buy not by ounces or grams but by the amount of THC the product contains. If implemented, the law will make Ohio's medical cannabis policy one of the most restrictive in the nation.

In New Mexico, thousands of medical cannabis patients jeopardize their health and freedom because of significant delays in reissuing of medical cards. Patients who try to get renewals for their expired cards face time-consuming bureaucracy that delays their marijuana treatment for months.